[AERNet] Braille music

[pgdonna at crystaloak.com]

This topic caught my attention.  My name is Donna Neibaur and I am  
currently enrolled to be a TVI .  Prior to my schooling, I taught  
piano lessons for many years.  Music is an instinctive skill to learn  
and most people learn by ear, even when they study notation.  This is  
why it is so enjoyable for people without vision to learn music.  A  
fourth grade music student, sighted or not, is learning elementary  
music skills through natural instinct.  Much of it is verbal and of  
course, a piano keyboard provides tactile information.  I believe  
students who have an interest in music should be introduced in other  
ways than music braille alone.  Music braille can be taught  when they  
show certain levels of proficiency in literary and nemeth braille  
along with other technology devices.  It just becomes another step  
along the way, but it should not hinder learning music skills at the  
age when they show an interest.  I think it also depends on the  
reading ability of the braille student.  If the fourth grade student  
reads contracted braille well, they are ready to learn the music code.



Quoting dwalters at cesa6.k12.wi.us:

> Hello,
>
> I have a fourth grade Braille student who's class will be learning how to
> read music.  I guess I'm just wondering how important it is for him to
> learn Braille music.  I feel like he has so much on his plate already with
> Braille, Nemeth, Window Eyes, BrailleNote, etc. etc. etc.  How often is he
> really going to need to understand Braille music?  (staff, notes, scale,
> etc.)
> I'm just wondering what others' views are on this.  If I do need to be
> teaching him Braille music, what are some good, easy resources?
>
> Thanks,
> Debi Walters
>
>
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